Posted on 08/06/2017 4:58:21 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Aug 6th, 2017
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senator Thom Tillis, R-N.C.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Govs. John Kasich, R-Ohio, and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo.; former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway; Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., Tillis
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J.
No question Panetta has been compromised years ago.
Ok, next you will be telling us that the communists pushed Elvis - The King, and the Beatles on us dumb rubes?
Our parents may have been right after all - is that what you are saying :) - Too funny
No question it’s unwinnable. Problem is they have poppy fields that when smuggled into America are taking a huge toll on our youth.We see what the CIA is up to is that the anwer?
...Meanwhile Comey and Mueller have set up the President for losses in the 2018 elections....
It’s the same playbook used against Sheriff Joe. Jam up Trump with nothingburger allegations and keep it before a prosecuter.
I note the DOJ crooks are spending all of their time on the Trump Russia nothingburger, while they slow walk all of the REAL Hillary crimes (because the DOJ crooks are part of those crimes)
I note this muh Russia fantasy does not flame out like the real crimes of Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS and slow lerner, etc, etc.
Funny that!
we have Mueller with 16 dem lawyers all looking for anything they can create a perjury trap on or a phony obstruction charge.
Rosie stated that Mueller cannot go outside the parameters of the original scope without the acting AG signing off on it.
Meanwhile, DWS and Awan have been spying on our govt. for 13 years,ripping it off,selling stolen cars for years to Africa, for 3 years,involved in a car ring, murder,the many crimes of Bubba and Hillary all the lies by obama
Rosie said at the DOJ "we follow the law" . He said Trump has good professional people heading the department, and when they have a full leadership staff they will be even more effective. Regarding the President's rally remarks (that DOJ should be looking at Hillary/DNC criminality) as an order; he said that he considered that to be a public remark, and the President gives the DOJ their orders privately.
Yes, I was astonished that ALL GOP Senators voted against Trump on the recess appointment moritorium, and also overwhelmingly voted against his ability to modify sanctions placed by Congress on the newly minted axis of Iran, Russia, China and North Korea.
I mean ALL! Mike Lee? Ted Cruz? Chuck Grassley? Rand Paul? Jim Demint? WTH?
Webb says, large military transport planes, like C-130s are used to transfer raw opium from Afghanistan to Pakistan, where they are refined into opioid medications, which are then contracted-out by mobbed-up doctors, to places like the VA (US Department of Veterans Affairs), where these generic drugs (usually watered-down to half- or quarter-strength) are distributed from Belgium.
He says information about all of the above can be found in the Congressional Blackberry phone network.
He describes these activities as, ‘Just Mena [Arkansas] Airport, on a global scale, just longer distances…It’s very simple: drugs go one way, arms go the other way….’ Half of the cargo gets left in Belgium and the rest comes to the US. In the past, he’s mentioned Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska, as well as an airport in Rockford, Illinois, where drugs were smuggled in shipments of mangoes and Basmati rice. Except that instead of the $1 million per day worth of cocaine being brought in at Mena, Webb claims, in an another one of his blizzard of micro-posts, that Offut AFB receives $1 billion per day (!) in opioids.”
WASHINGTON —
The world's No. 1 opium-producing country, Afghanistan, is braced for an exploding poppy harvest this year, as farmers are cultivating the illicit crop in areas where it has never grown before.
“Unfortunately, the narcotics production is on the rise this year,” Javed Qaem, Afghan deputy counternarcotics minister, told international donors in Kabul Tuesday. “We are concerned that narcotics would increase this year, including in areas and provinces where previously we had zero opium production.”
A new United Nations survey said Friday the total area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has increased by 10 percent, from 183,000 to 201,000 hectares, compared to the previous year, leading to a significant rise in the production of illicit opium. The illicit drug is fueling insecurity, violence and insurgency among other problems to discourage private and public investment in Afghanistan, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said in its survey report.
Qaem’s comments come amid growing international concern that the Taliban, who are fighting Afghan government troops in rural areas of the country, are fueling the poppy trade by engaging in trafficking and skimming hundreds of millions dollars in profit to fuel their militancy.
Taliban insurgents, according to U.S. officials, net 60 percent of their war chest from narcotics.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, March, 16, 2017, after being sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, March, 16, 2017, after being sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence.
Top producer of opium
Afghanistan is thought to produce an estimated 90 percent of the world's heroin. As poppy cultivation spikes, U.S. intelligence officials warn that the war-torn country is likely to see more armed violence this year.
“The intelligence community assesses that the political and security situation in Afghanistan will almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in [the] military assistance by the United States and its partners,” U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in a Senate hearing last week.
It’s going to be interesting to see where Mueller takes this investigation with so many rats on his payroll.
IOW, define an overall strategy.
Then, set up a military chain of command with authority, men and materiel to carry it out and with direct responsibility to the President.
Last, but maybe most important of all, identify any person or entity who attempts to interfere with and/or profit by this campaign and sent their butts to a really nasty prison for the duration. (Oh, how many times I've wished that had been the case for 'Nam...or since.)
No, the CIA watched the Jason Bourne movies and then took the whole agency rogue: WE’re in charge! they howl from their dark alleys
Heard they are shipping to Europe, who are banking Coal to burn this coming winter
Heck, he is/was instrumental in the whole set up of the operation of giving illegals the vote!
RG, as you are well aware they had poppy fields way before we ever went in there. Those cave dwellers aren’t worth one more American life. And being the coarse soul I am, there isn’t much pity in me for all those who decide life is good on drugs.
Is that accurate from your perspective?
I really don’t know.I’m not up on Calif. politics and who runs the elections out there.But it does appear someone needs to clean the state up. Appears voter fraud is in the millions.
I heard the same.
Problem is you pay either way.Either by destroying the poppy fields or paying for the damage done by those hooked on heroin,either way we pay.
With pot coming on so strong and some thinkging its just a gateway drug to bigger and better,might be a good time to destroy the poppy fields or at least the ratline that brings it to the US.
I guess it is how do you define "win."
I think if we decide to stay in Afghanistan, we need to come up with a policy defining just what we are doing there, and for how long, what the milestones are, and which milestone we’ll use to finally leave.
We are still in Korea, Germany, and Japan.
Barely watch the Sunday morning shows anymore but I caught this exchange between Georgie and Kellyanne. Went to comment at the This Week Facebook page. TDS appears to have spilled over onto Kellyanne. Most comments babbling about not having her on the show anymore. The hatred is palpable. No wonder I don’t watch anymore.
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